Here’s something from the “Old Hollywood power couples” file.

Random quote from each book. Left to right:

Gable and Lombard:

“My breasts, my breasts,’ moaned the platinum Venus as her nipples enlarged to the size of thimbles. ‘Oh please, please f*** me,’ she pleaded with the husky truck driver.” – Quote from Jean Harlow, which may or may not be total bullshit.

Tracy and Hepburn:

“My father—” he began, “John Edward Tracy – was a powerful man. In every way. Body and mind. He was in the trucking business most of his life– and he was kind of a truck himself. A hell of a worker…” - Spencer Tracy on his father, the truck.

Don’t ask me what all this is about trucks and truck driver. I’m honestly just opening the books at random pages!

Astaire & Rogers:

“On the day shooting was to begin, Judy made her appearance at MGM. She proceeded directly to the Barclays set and planted herself behind the camera as an observer. Her presence unsettled everyone in the company. Charles (Chuck) Walters, the director, couldn’t stand to have her there, obviously hostile and critical. He requested that she leave. Judy flatly refused. He applied physical strength and forcibly led her from the sound stage, barring her possible re-entry by posting a guard at the door. She struggled against his grip, loudly calling gutter curses at Ginger as she went.” - Ginger Rogers replaces Judy Garland in 'Barclays’.

You could say Judy was cursing like a truck driver! ha ha.

And in honor of thatbath scene fromSpartacus, I give you: Sir Laurence Olivier.

Watching The Tudors, and reading about what really happened. I love when I can find the fact behind the fiction, and both stories are equally as enjoyable.
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Epigraph to Leon Edel, Henry James: The Middle Years, 1884–94(1963)

Nikolai Konstantinovich Marshalk (1895 - 1951)

Since 1918 he was in the Volunteer Army (White army) and participated in the Ice March. He was serving as Second Lieutenant in the Kornilov shock division, and was wounded twice. In 1919 he returned to his homeland Latvia but was enlistend in the North-Western Army the same year. In December 1919 he transfered to the Rifle Division of the 5th Infantry Division. He survived the civil war and emigrated to Germany. In 1938 he was arrested by Gestapo for criticizing Nazi policies and was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. After the end of the war he stayed and lived in Germany for the rest of his life together with his family.

New from Tim Duggan Books, Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars, by Francesca Wade.

New from Yale University Press and critic and biographer Jonathan Bate, Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World.

‘At Eternity’s Gate’, Julian Schnabel (2018)

There’s a lot of destruction and failure at the door of a successful picture. I find joy in sorrow. And sorrow is greater than laughter. You know, an angel is not far from those who are sad, and illness can sometimes heal us.

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medieval-women:

Christine de Pizan

Author, historian, poet, philosopher

Born 1364 or 1365 – Died 1430 (age 65 - 66)

Claim to fame: An advocate for women’s education, Christine is the first European woman known to have made her living as a writer.

Born the eldest child of the personal physician to King Charles V of France, Christine was well educated and benefited from access to the King’s vast library.

Christine was married at 15 and widowed just 10 years later. After her husband’s death, she turned to writing to support herself and her family, serving as a court writer for several dukes as well as Charles VI of France.

Her 1405 book, ‘La Cité des Dames’ (‘Book of the City of Ladies’), catalogued female accomplishment and helped establish her popularity. This book is considered by many as the inaugural text in the field now known as women’s studies.

Christine completed forty-one works during her career. Her work contradicted negative female stereotypes and countered unjust slander of women within other literary texts. She argued that women have the same aptitudes as men and thus the right to the same education. Christine’s influence in the otherwise male-dominated field of rhetorical discourse lead Simone de Beauvoir to acknowledge her as the first woman to “take up her pen in defence of her sex”.

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